MobileNotifier for iOS Embarrasses Apple’s Poor Effort

You’re probably as sick as I am of having a Twitter or e-mail alert pop up in the middle of a game of Angry birds and freezing everything. Or worse, pulling your iDevice off the nightstand in the morning to be greeted by a stack of alerts which can only be viewed in order, and dismissed one by one.

MobileNotifier is an jailbreak hack for the iPhone and iPod Touch that is so good, it should have come from Apple. Normally I wouldn’t cover jailbreak-only software, but this is obviously too good not to write about. It works like this:

When you get a new notification, it slides in from the top of the screen. You can ignore it, dismiss it or open the relevant app to view it. It also combines multiple alerts together, instead of stacking them in an endless mess like the built-in system.

And then things get interesting. First, you can see the notifications from the lock screen, letting you check to see if you have new mail, voicemail and so on, at a glance. This alone is worth installing the app. But then you get to the “AlertDashboard.”

The AlertDashboard pops up whenever you double-tap the home button, showing up on-screen above the iOS task switcher. It’s a box in which all your notifications are shown, letting you quickly check on what has happened since you last looked.

To check it out, you’ll need to add Hajas’ software repository to your iPhone. The app is beta, but if you’re running a jailbreak then you probably don’t care about that.

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